On this episode of Brigadoon Radio, Benjamin Shobert and Marc Ross discuss the launch of TOGETHER and how America is getting ready for a decade of political innovation.
Ben is launching TOGETHER founded on the idea that your voice, your story, your community, and your frustrations with today’s American politics matter.
Brigadoon Monthly Call
Carlo Navato | Founder @ Haxted Estates
April 20 @ 2:00 - 2:45 pm ET
Carlo is the visionary founder of Haxted Estates, a multi-award-winning property developer who believes his success has come from being passionately curious.
He believes he has no special talents, with the exception of his ever-curious mindset. For him, curiosity leads to inspiration which leads to creativity which leads to you doing cool stuff.
Carlo has a passion for design, architecture, and craftsmanship. Determined to make inclusive, inspiring places for people to live, work and play, he loves to challenge convention and believes that inspiration can be found everywhere. A Chartered Surveyor by training, he is happiest with mavericks in wild places and is a passionate photographer, and lover of books, vinyl, his VW camper van, sport, and wine. He is a founding partner of the Do Lectures.
Watch Carlo in action with his talk = A call to arms for curiosity = here on Vimeo.
Recorded in February 2022, a Brigadoon Monthly Call with Joe Fattorini.
Joe is Managing Director + Behavioural Science Lead @ PixWine and known around the world as "Obi Wine Kenobi", the expert presenter on The Wine Show.
Between researching his MPhil on Food & Religion and teaching Structuralist Food Theory and Hotel Valuation Models, Joe wrote the world’s first textbook on selling and marketing wine in restaurants. A book still used in universities over 20 years later.
In 2016 he was a nominee for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust Outstanding Alumni Award. This is a new annual accolade to celebrate a WSET Diploma graduate who is notably contributing to the industry.
You can follow Joe on Instagram here.
Shownotes:
Obi Wine Kenobi runs Marathon du Médoc.
PixWine: Pix is the world's first wine discovery platform with a simple matchmaking mission: to pair people with bottles that bring them joy.
Wine choice is situational: "Middle-aged English businessmen, their palates apparently changed at Waterloo Station."
Stated preferences vs. Revealed preferences
Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively." In The Forms of Capital, Pierre Bourdieu distinguishes between three forms of capital: economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital.
James Bond has saved the world and beaten the bad buys because of his wine knowledge.
James Bond: The wine is quite excellent. Although for such a grand meal, I would have expected a claret.
Mr. Wint: But of course. Unfortunately, our cellar is poorly stocked with clarets.
James Bond: Mouton Rothschild IS a claret. And, I've smelled that aftershave before, and both times - I've smelled a rat.
-- Diamonds Are Forever
Read: Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference - Judea Pearl
"A lot of people aren't looking for the best wine; they are looking for the guaranteed not shit one."
Binge-watching Netflix for a living: How a Netflix tagger helps you discover new shows: The good, the bad, and the boring kids' stuff of metadata analysis for a streaming service. Toms Guide
The most magical place on Earth: Inside the great NBA bubble experiment. GQ - Taylor Rooks
What is mimetic theory? COV&R
Read: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life - Luke Burgis
Explore vs. Exploit
How people decide what to buy lies in the 'messy middle' of the purchase journey Google
Google's new 'messy middle' — what's it all about? Nick Barthram
Monty Python: The upper-class twit of the year YouTube
Veblen good: Type of luxury good for which the demand for a good increases as the price increases, in apparent (but not actual) contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure practices.
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899) is a treatise of economics and sociology written by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen.
The 1855 Bordeaux Classification: The ranking system put in place by Napoleon III still influences today's market. Wine Spectator
Decanting the meteoric rise of Whispering Angel: Sacha Lichine teaches us all to embrace La Vie En Rosé. Gentleman's Journal
Brigadoon Weekend | Global Street Smarts
Brigadoon Weekend curates 25 emerging issues shaping commerce + culture so you can make intelligent + innovative decisions.
March 19, 2022
IDEAS + INSIGHTS:
1. 52% of Americans don’t think Biden will run for re-election in two years, while 29% do expect him to pursue a second term. Nineteen percent are undecided about his future, according to a WSJ poll.
2. The war in Ukraine is triggering a global food crisis: 50 countries depend on Russia and Ukraine for 30%+ of their wheat.
3. NFZ support: A Quinnipiac poll finds Americans approve of NATO’s decision not to enforce a no-fly zone, 54% to 32%.
4. USA-UKR weapons: The US will send 100 Switchblade drones to Ukraine as part of the Biden administration’s new $800 million weapons package.
5. CNBC: Global tech firms are lining up to hire Ukraine’s world-renowned coders
+ Dozens of companies have posted job ads for tech roles on a website called Remote Ukraine that’s been set up to help firms around the world hire Ukrainians
+ WhatsApp, Grammarly, Gitlab, and Solana were all founded or co-founded by Ukrainians, while Google, Samsung, and Amazon all have research and development centers in the country
6. Foxconn in talks to build $9 billion factory in Saudi Arabia: WSJ reports the biggest assembler of the iPhone is discussing a potential facility that could make microchips, electric-vehicle components, and other electronics, according to people familiar with the matter.
7. Saudi Arabia has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the kingdom on a trip that could happen as soon as May.
8. Macron proposes increasing France’s retirement age to 65: WSJ reports the proposal by the French president comes three weeks before national elections.
9. Making chips: The chief executives of Intel and Micron are set to testify on March 23 before the US Senate Commerce Committee on boosting semiconductor manufacturing and competitiveness.
10. NYT: Fed raises rates and projects six more increases in 2022
11. Barack Obama features in Netflix’s trailer for its new docu-series “Our Great National Parks,” which will feature narration from Obama and is set to release on April 13.
12. 68% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050.
13. Online dating is responsible for connecting 4 in 10 American couples.
14. Art auctions saw a record year in 2021 with $17.1 billion (15.6 billion euros) in sales as the market continued its rapid growth in Asia and recovered from its coronavirus slump, experts Artprice said.
15. CNBC: Hypersonic aircraft start-up Hermeus raises $100 million to finish prototype, build out fleet
16. TikTok has become the official partner of the Cannes Film Festival.
17. Amazon closes deal to acquire MGM: WSJ reports the tech giant closed on its $6.5 billion deal for the MGM movie and television studio, adding 4,000 films including the James Bond franchise and thousands of TV episodes to its holdings.
18. Netflix to make five new Dr. Seuss animated shows.
19. Apple is crypto’s biggest wild card: Trung Phan writes that crypto applications for the iPhone could attract more than 1 billion new users.
20. Honda plans a $1.38 billion plant upgrade in Ontario.
21. Tesla hikes prices twice in a week due to rising costs - its cheapest car now starting at $46,990.
22. Volvo + ChargePoint will build EV charging stations at Starbucks in 5 states.
23. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to return: WSJ reports in leading the coffee giant for the third time, he is expected to set innovation strategy and weigh in on a successor.
24. Foxconn forecasts tough operating environment from pandemic, inflation, war: WSJ reports the iPhone assembler resumed some production in Shenzhen by setting up a bubblelike environment and keeping workers inside.
25. WP: Christian Eriksen, whose heart stopped during Euro 2020, named to Denmark’s national soccer team
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BRIGADOON RADIO:
Endurance + Obi-Wan Kenobi: On this episode of Brigadoon Radio, Chad Munitz and Marc Ross discuss GQ's 50 holy grails of modern menswear, the appeal of ‘post-industrial parks, the new office and the end of the five-day workweek, Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, and what they are reading and watching. Watch + listen here.
BRIGADOON EVENTS:
Curiosity drives creativity
Brigadoon Monthly Call
Carlo Navato | Founder @ Haxted
April 20 @ 2:00 - 2:45 pm ET
Splinternets + Digital currencies
Brigadoon Monthly Call
Finn Brunton |Author of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
May 18 @ 2:00 - 2:45 pm ET
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